I’ve seen and heard enough, even from some distance, about the failure of the Uvalde, Texas, school district chief of police to protect the children and teachers in that grief-stricken district.
Pete Arredondo needs to find another line of work far away from law enforcement. Thus, it is up to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees to fire him. Send him packing. He didn’t do his job.
Whenever I see the term “administrative leave,” I tend to cringe. All that means is that whoever is being “punished” for failure to do his or her job is still getting paid even though he or she is not performing the duties of the job. That describes Arredondo’s status at the moment.
A gunman walked into Robb Elementary School and slaughtered 19 children and two educators. About the only thing of consequence that Arredondo has said is that he didn’t know he was in charge of the police response to the massacre.
Really? If not you, then who should have been in charge. This happened on property you took an oath to protect. The chief didn’t do his job.
The dilly-dallying by the school board has gone on long enough. The whole grieving world now has seen the video of the cops standing around, trying to figure out what to do while the lunatic was killing children in the classroom.
This tragedy is on Pete Arredondo’s hands. He failed to do his job. Arredondo needs to go.